⁷ Yet I thought that after she had done all this she would return to Me. But she did not return. Even her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. ⁸ I noted that when backsliding Israel committed adultery I sent her away and gave her a certificate of divorce. Yet, unfaithful Judah, her sister, did not fear. Instead she also went and committed adultery. ⁹ It happened that through her frivolous prostitution, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with wood.